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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Black Lives Matter Clarion Call for Black-Led Legal Support: Is This a Turning Point for the NLG?, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years ago
By Dr. Jill Humphries, 2015 Legal Worker Honoree
Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists’ clarion call for Black-led legal support that is primarily provided by Black attorneys, legal workers, and community m […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Food Justice and Intersectionality, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years ago
We are the primary authors of the Food Justice Guidelines. We are Muslim women of color, Palestinian human rights attorneys, animal rights attorneys, public defenders, racial justice attorneys, and intersectional […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Guild Member Wins Peabody Award for Albie Sachs Documentary, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years ago
Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa, the latest film by Abby Ginzberg, Bay Area filmmaker and former national NLG leader, topped off a year of worldwide screenings and rave reviews by receiving […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Many Hands Make Positive Change at Wayne State, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years ago
By Sean Riddell, Wayne State University NLG
Law students often feel as though they do not have the capacity to make a change in their communities. We feel as if the problems are too large, our voice is too quiet, […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, NLG Asks Obama to “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is” on Cuba, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years ago
By Art Heitzer, Cuba Subcommittee Chair
December 17, 2015 will mark a year after Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced the release of the Cuban Five and other prisoners, and the U.S. pledge to […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Run the Jewels “Meows” the Guild, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years ago
During the Law for the People Convention, the NLG learned that in addition to $40,000 in proceeds from their feline-inspired remix album, “Meow the Jewels” pledged to the families of Mike Brown and Eric Gar […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Liz Fink, Rest in Power, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years ago
Elizabeth “Liz” Fink (1945-2015) was a “second-generation,” lifelong NLG-NYC member and fierce criminal defense attorney. In this Speaking Freely video, Liz explains how she grew up in the Guild and what led her […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, President’s Column: Political Prisoners and the Struggle for Justice, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years ago
“La lucha sin amor se muere.” (Struggle, without love, will die).
These are the words of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera during my visit to see him in federal prison in November. I spent […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, In Memoriam: Michael Kennedy, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
By Eleanor Stein
Michael Kennedy, a member of the NLG San Francisco Bay Area and New York City Chapters, died in January at the age of 78. Kennedy represented movement clients in major cases and was known as an […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Battleground: Lockdown, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
How Long-Term Solitary Adversely Impacts Society
By Dr. George Willie Buford, III, D.D. | Lewisburg, PA
One significant, yet overlooked battleground in our march toward American criminal justice reform is the […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, NLG Student Week Against Mass Incarceration Sparks Political Education and Inspiring Actions, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
Following the NLG’s 2015 adoption of a resolution in support of prison abolition, the NLG expanded its annual Student Week Against the Death Penalty to become the Student Week Against Mass I […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Following #Law4thePeople Convention, NLG UC Davis Holds Events on Movement Law, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
By Aviva Simon, UC Davis NLG
Many of us at the UC Davis NLG Chapter were fortunate enough to attend the annual NLG conference held in Oakland last fall. We returned to Davis inspired by the speakers and fellow G […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, UDC NLG Renames Chapter after John C. Brittain, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
By John Blake, NLG UDC Chapter
One of my first events as the Historian of our NLG student chapter at the University of D.C. David A Clarke School of Law was the renaming of the chapter in honor of our […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Mississippi DOC Revives “Group Punishment”, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
By Charles D. Owens, II | Lakesville, MS
The Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), under the leadership of the new Commissioner Marshall Fisher, has revived the practice of group punishment. Under this […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Chicago Community Bond Fund: Harm Reduction in a Prison Nation, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
By Sharlyn Grace and Max Suchan, NLG-Chicago
On any given day, around 500,000 people in the United States are behind bars for one simple yet horrifying reason: they cannot afford bond. In Chicago, a determined […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Flint Inmates Forced to Drink Lead-Contaminated Water, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
By Shanna Merola, NLG Detroit and Michigan Chapter Legal Observer Coordinator
On January 8th, Detroit activists called for a “solidarity road trip” from Detroit to Flint, Michigan to “Arrest Governor Snyde […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Prisoner Paralegals: Our Struggle to Find Justice, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
By Hunter Lee Weeks | Sterling, CO
In prison, there are those of us who spend time, effort, and funds to acquire a formal education in law. Most of us have no education, while a few of us have Certificates of […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Inmate Advisory Counsel: A Cruel Hoax, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
By Rodney B. Barno | Corcoran, CA
I was the Inmate Advisory Counsel (IAC) Chairman at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (CSATF) in Corcoran, California. My responsibility was to advocate for the […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, The Flint River Lead Poisoning Catastrophe in Historical Perspective, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
By Tom Stephens, NLG Detroit and Michigan Chapter
The facts of the Flint River lead poisoning are essentially undisputed. Enabled by Michigan’s unprecedented “emergency management” policies affecting prima […]
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Tasha Moro wrote a new post, Kentucky’s “Corruptional” System, on the site NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 8 years, 1 month ago
By Christopher L. Young | La Grange, KY
I am grateful to be a member of the NLG and a Guild Notes subscriber and looking forward to receiving the Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook—I appreciate the chance to get my vo […]
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